On the eve of its completion, architect Antoine Predock discusses the Edith Kinney Gaylord Cornerstone Arts Center.

Learn more about the Cornerstone Arts Initiative here: http://www.coloradocollege.edu/news_events/Cornerstone/

I just heard an interview on NPR with CC Professor Stephen Scott about the Bowed Piano.  Amazing.  If you didn’t hear the interview, go to http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18666248

There’s even a link to a video so you can see how they produce the amazing music.  Guess it’s been around since the mid 70’s - so lots of alumni might know about it — but it’s a nice reminder of some of the amazing things that are going on at CC.   Makes me proud.

This is the link directly to the video:  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18666248

Filmmaker alumni Katy Garton and Erin Hudson, both from the class of 2001, have produced this fantastic piece about the campaign.

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The ‘57 hockey team came back to Colorado Springs in March 2007, 50 years after their NCAA championship.
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What a great opportunity — to reflect on my own peak experiences at CC. Thanks for making the site available.

 Maybe the first “peak experience,” as you call it was discovering that I could be a lime tree!  Yep, tryouts for a play my first week at CC — “show me a lime tree.”  That should have been a signal that I was in for an experience unlike anything that had come before.  In fact it was the first of hundreds, maybe thousands of opportunities I had to think, imagine, learn, communicate, and finally perform in different ways in all areas - not just on a stage.  

Just as for many others, my CC experience transformed me.  A fact that has become more clear to me with every passing year.  Every success I’ve had can probably be traced back in one way or another to what was demanded of me and offered to me as a student of CC.

By the way, it’s been amazing to watch the new arts center go up.  I’m just a LITTLE jealous of the students who will get to use it.Â

I drove sightseeing trips during my years at CC. I have logged about 1000 trips up and down that mountain. A great mountain but I don’t think I’ll do it Again! Well maybe on the cog railway!
— G. Russell Sauer

Half-way up the mountain, this campaign has already been a transformative personal and professional adventure for me. I’m planning to post stories from the campaign using this site over the coming 2 years, 11 months, and 28 days. (NOTE: This first post includes a hint for “Name that Head.”)

It seems fitting to start with a September 2005 climb of Pikes Peak (my first). I climbed as part of the annual event to raise money for the Brain Injury Association of Colorado. A CC student, Ian, who has a brain injury from a car accident he suffered as he was driving from Denver back to campus, had recruited me to do the climb. I was interested because I have two family members with brain injuries. It’s all about the brain!
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